Category: Middle East Monitor
Modern warfare is waged with high-tech weapons. Each battle fought eats up loads of ammunition and modern weapons systems need spare parts and fuel. All this meaning that no military action is possible without...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest strikes against Iran-backed militia in Syria and Iraq were not the first nor likely the last of his young presidency. For some of Biden’s fellow Democrats, the crucial question...
Israel’s foreign minister headed to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday in the first official visit by an Israeli minister to the Gulf state since the two countries established diplomatic relations last year. Yair...
Pro-Iranian militias exchanged fire with a US-led coalition in eastern Syria Monday, a war monitor and the coalition said, in an escalation after deadly US air strikes in Iraq and Syria the previous night....
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Those who advocate for Israel often take a defensive posture in response to endless attacks from advocates for the Palestinians. The debate focuses entirely on Israel’s perceived imperfections. Instead, pro-Israel advocates should...
They had no country – In early 1948, Israel was a wish, not a fact. Matti Friedman writes this riveting story of how Israel came to be, through the lives of four Arab Israeli...
Introduction The ravaging conflict between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas which has come to fragile halt after elven days of conflict drew concerns from the international community. UN Security Council convened a meeting named...
The whole world is looking forward to the meeting of the new US President Joe Biden with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Although the Kremlin and the White House urge people not to expect...
Israeli politicians battling to unseat veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have until just before midnight Wednesday to make their “change” coalition, composed of bitter ideological rivals, viable. They only have until the end of...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, is on the verge of being toppled from power after more than a decade in office. The 71-year-old right-winger looks set to be ousted by an unlikely coalition of right-wing,...